Dozens feared dead in Nige­ria as leak­ing oil tanker ex­plodes

“We have re­cov­ered 12 corpses and taken 22 per­sons with se­ri­ous burns to hospi­tal,” po­lice spokes­woman Irene Ugbo told The As­so­ci­ated Press. She said the blast oc­curred Fri­day evening in Oduk­pani in Cross River state.

Wit­ness Richard John­son sug­gested the blast was caused by a gen­er­a­tor.